18 For on the one hand, a former commandment is set aside (A)because of its weakness and uselessness

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For (A)God has done what the law, (B)weakened by the flesh, (C)could not do. (D)By sending his own Son (E)in the likeness of sinful flesh and (F)for sin,[a] he condemned sin in the flesh,

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Footnotes

  1. Romans 8:3 Or and as a sin offering

39 and by him (A)everyone who believes is freed[a] from everything (B)from which you could not be freed by the law of Moses.

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  1. Acts 13:39 Greek justified; twice in this verse

Jesus Compared to Melchizedek

11 (A)Now if perfection had been attainable through the Levitical priesthood (for under it the people received the law), what further need would there have been for another priest to arise after the order of Melchizedek, rather than one named after the order of Aaron? 12 For when there is a change in the priesthood, there is necessarily a change in the law as well.

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(A)For if that first covenant had been faultless, there would have been no occasion to look for a second.

For he finds fault with them when he says:[a]

(B)“Behold, the days are coming, declares the Lord,
    when I will establish a new covenant with the house of Israel
    and with the house of Judah,
not like the covenant that I made with their fathers
    on the day when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt.
For they did not continue in my covenant,
    and so I showed no concern for them, declares the Lord.
10 (C)For this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel
    after those days, declares the Lord:
I will put my laws into their minds,
    and (D)write them on their hearts,
and I will be their God,
    and they shall be my people.
11 And they shall not teach, each one his neighbor
    and each one his brother, saying, ‘Know the Lord,’
for they shall (E)all know me,
    from the least of them to the greatest.
12 For I will be merciful toward their iniquities,
    (F)and I will remember their sins no more.”

13 In speaking of a new covenant, he makes the first one obsolete. And (G)what is becoming obsolete and growing old is ready to vanish away.

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  1. Hebrews 8:8 Some manuscripts For finding fault with it he says to them

19 (for (A)the law made nothing perfect); but on the other hand, (B)a better hope is introduced, through which (C)we draw near to God.

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But now that you have come to know God, or rather (A)to be known by God, (B)how can you turn back again to (C)the weak and worthless elementary principles of the world, whose slaves you want to be once more?

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for while (A)bodily training is of some value, godliness (B)is of value in every way, as (C)it holds promise for the present life and also for the life to come.

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Do not be (A)led away by diverse and strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, (B)not by foods, which have not benefited those devoted to them.

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17 This is what I mean: the law, which came (A)430 years afterward, does not annul a covenant previously ratified by God, so as (B)to make the promise void.

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Christ's Sacrifice Once for All

10 For since the law has but (A)a shadow (B)of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, (C)it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near. Otherwise, would they not have ceased to be offered, since the worshipers, having once been cleansed, would no longer have any consciousness of sins? But (D)in these sacrifices (E)there is a reminder of sins every year. For (F)it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins.

Consequently, (G)when Christ[a] came into the world, he said,

(H)“Sacrifices and offerings you have not desired,
    but a body have you prepared for me;
in burnt offerings and sin offerings
    you have taken no pleasure.
Then I said, ‘Behold, I have come to do your will, O God,
    as it is written of me in the scroll of the book.’”

When he said above, “You have neither desired nor taken pleasure in (I)sacrifices and offerings and burnt offerings and sin offerings” (these are offered according to the law), then he added, (J)“Behold, I have come to do your will.” He does away with the first in order to establish the second.

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  1. Hebrews 10:5 Greek he

Example of Hagar and Sarah

21 Tell me, you who desire to be under the law, do you not listen to the law?

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The Law and the Promise

15 (A)To give a human example, brothers:[a] (B)even with a man-made covenant, no one annuls it or adds to it once it has been ratified.

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  1. Galatians 3:15 Or brothers and sisters

31 Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law.

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(which is symbolic for the present age).[a] According to this arrangement, gifts and sacrifices are offered (A)that cannot perfect the conscience of the worshiper, 10 but deal only with (B)food and drink and (C)various washings, regulations for the body imposed until the time of reformation.

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  1. Hebrews 9:9 Or which is symbolic for the age then present

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